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...Wolff. The conference took place Sep. 23-25, the same weekend that the exhibit opened. It featured papers by musicologists as well as live performances by the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra, and pianist and Harvard Professor Robert Levin and his wife, pianist Ya-Fei Chuang (both of whom played harpsichord...
...LANDED. FEI JUNLONG, 40, and NIE HAISHENG, 41, the crew of the Shenzhou VI, China's second manned spacecraft; in Inner Mongolia. Last year, China became the third country after the U.S. and Russia to send humans into space. The launch of the Shenzhou VI, China's first space mission with two astronauts, was broadcast live on Chinese television, as were images of Fei and Nie emerging triumphantly from the space capsule at the end of their 115-hour, 32-minute trip. China's space program has announced plans for its first extravehicular space walk...
...ecstasy were men: Daniel Auteuil in Hidden,Viggo Mortensen in Violence, Bill Murray in Broken Flowers, Jeremie Renier in L'Enfant, Nazmi Kirik in Kilometre Zero, Michael Pitt in Last Days, Sam Shepard in Don't Come Knocking, Mickey Rourke or Bruce Willis in Sin City, Tony Leung Ka-fei or Simon Yam in Election... the list is distinguished, and nearly endless...
...DIED. FEI XIAOTONG, 94, Chinese sociologist and anthropologist famous for documenting Chinese rural life in works such as Peasant Life in China and From the Soil; in Beijing. One of China's most distinguished and prolific scholars, Fei helped lay the foundation for sociology in China, only to fall from grace during the Cultural Revolution for studying what was considered a capitalist science. Rehabilitated, he became Vice-Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, and later served as an adviser to then-Shanghai party secretary Jiang Zemin during the 1989 student-led democracy movement...
...city it supposedly was set in, a local newspaper called Wong "the female traitor to China," and a journal in Tianjin carried the headline: "Paramount Uses Anna May Wong to Embarrass China Again." Apparently not realizing that the villain Chang was a Communist, and Wong's Hui Fei, though a prostitute, was a brave Nationalist who kills Chang to save China, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government banned the film. Said Wong: "It's a pretty sad situation to be rejected by the Chinese because I am too American...